Well, epic weekend but not exactly what I started off with in mind. The RS Motors DCTC event was a freaking BLAST, my car was an early 'lead' in the 'speed stop' / autoX after the first session with a 24.9x. I was happy but knew it wouldn't stand up to some of the more setup cars and more experienced drivers later on. nbd
Looking back, I ran several 24.9x passes which I'm fairly proud of since I only got two sessions in, but I think I'm the most pumped about my SECOND pass, a 25.0x. First run was 1/2 - 3/4 speed with a 28.x, just lolly gagging to learn the course and then turn up the gas for run number 2. I SUCK at autoX and events like this so this makes me super super excited!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcavSVkJsH4&hd=1
The car felt nice and dialed in on the 'road course' section but maaaan it was SO tight. Definitely a good time to practice patience in the tight corners, nice and easy/smooth. Due to a puking porsche the track had to be reconfigured after the first session and I was happy as hell with the second configuration.
Again the car felt awesome, I was feeling confident and just trying all kinds of ways to go through various elements of the course...too hot, too slow, a little sideways, nice and tight, etc etc etc. Learned a lot about the car and it was great experience.
I had brought with my neighbor Alex, it was his first time at a track and he was just eating it up; I brought him for a drive-along for part of that second session, and about 3/4 of the way through there was a POP at the top of 2nd gear and I had to pull over.
Pics basically tell the rest of the story, but at the track I kept wondering, 'where did the accessory belt go??!?!?' as it was seriously just gone.
Towed the car home, easy peasy. Thanks spazzy and Dusty for helping me get it in the garage!
I knew this day would come
Accessory belt, where are you!?!?!?
Crank is at TDC and cams are here....yeow.
Timing cover is a little um...thrashed.
As I took things apart, I found more and more accessory belt bits, finally this was behind the timing cog:
After cleaning everything out, I re--set timing and crossed my fingers with a compression test:
0 0 0 0
Turbo was quite the helper, very supportive!
So, off came the head and on went my sad face...look, 5 rocker arms just floating aroudn the head:
Cams scored:
Ummmmmm yuck. All 16 valves are on full derp-mode:
Found this in cyl3:
Cyl1:
Cyl2:
Cyl3:
Cyl4:
Shockingly, all of the cyl walls look good at first look. The worst piston is #3, need some advice on what to do here:
High res pics here:
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/evo9
So, bought some dollies the next day and after some garage antics, pushed the car against the wall so I could pull the s2k back in.
Fun weekend!
